If the interactions between Jesus and the Pharisees as stated in the NT were true why would Jesus found a priest-based religion?

History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.

I find it interesting that a book could have been considered apocryphal not because of its doctrine or questions about its authorship, but because of its verbosity which, as Gregory noted, "bred weariness" in its readers.

No offence to our Mormon friends, but the Book of Mormon is written in a desperately awful pseudo-KJV style and its sustained, lavish and deeply irritating prolixity is a swingeing condemnation of the author (whoever he be thought to be).

I find it interesting that a book could have been considered apocryphal not because of its doctrine or questions about its authorship, but because of its verbosity which, as Gregory noted, "bred weariness" in its readers.

No offence to our Mormon friends, but the Book of Mormon is written in a desperately awful pseudo-KJV style and its sustained, lavish and deeply irritating prolixity is a swingeing condemnation of the author (whoever he be thought to be).

I find it interesting that a book could have been considered apocryphal not because of its doctrine or questions about its authorship, but because of its verbosity which, as Gregory noted, "bred weariness" in its readers.

No offence to our Mormon friends, but the Book of Mormon is written in a desperately awful pseudo-KJV style and its sustained, lavish and deeply irritating prolixity is a swingeing condemnation of the author (whoever he be thought to be).

The book of mormon is as much doo doo as the bible.

People believe anything that is in writing.

Not even recipies for chocolate chip cookies?

Jesus had two dads, and he turned out alright.~ Andy Gussert

“Feminism has fought no wars. It has killed no opponents. It has set up no concentration camps, starved no enemies, practiced no cruelties. Its battles have been for education, for the vote, for better working conditions…for safety on the streets…for child care, for social welfare…for rape crisis centers, women’s refuges, reforms in the law.